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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
War Times over AGAIN.
The Army And Navy Club
Reunion.
THE RAILROAD TO BLAME
For The Disaster At Bussey
Bridge.
THE RESERVOIR WAR IN OHIO.
Five Men Killed In A
COlliery.
THE RESERVOIR WAR IN OHIO.
rHE ARMY AND NAVY CLUB.

Hartford-Mark Twain Sails Into
Matthew Arnold For the Latter,s
Criticism of General Grants Eng
lish-Gther Addresses.
HARTFORD, April 27.-At the annual re-
union of the Army and Navy club of Con-
necticut in Hartford on Wednesday evening,
9th, the chief address on the memory of
General Grant was made by the Rev. Dr. M
B. Riddle, formerly chaplain in the service.
Following him the POSTMASTER, the Hon. v.
B. Chamberlain, introduced Mr.. S. L. Glenn
ems by referring to the Grant Memoirs, and
tistics obtained from the publishers, and not
heretofore published:
STATISTICS IN REGARD TO THE MANUFACTURE OF THE
PERSONAL MEMOIRS S. GRANT.
In binding the cloth books there was a, S59
square yards of cloth used, il put in piece it
would make strip yard wide and 25 is miles
long.
The gold used in stamping, lettering, etc, all
styles of binding if coined would make St54 1851.
SCI S.. $3.50 f''A WIG s0'e''''S 40 ILLS gnu
There were e76 barrels>of binder paste used.
weighing about SO, 900 pounds.
There were q, Ss2 sheep skins used, 7,21 goat
skins and 1873 calf skins. AS none of these skins
were split it represents, Of course, the killing of an
equal number of animals.
the printing, which weighed about 1,sl8.8so pounds
OF 9o6 tons TINS put int s one pics piece would make
II the books were piled up in one row the narrow
est way, thai is the same they would stand in
bookcase, it would take shelf 1919 miles long to
If the pages of the books were joined together it
would make strip of paper six inches wide and
6,72915 miles long
Forty-on steam presses were working day and
over 5000 agents engaged in distributing the book
To these latter who were mainly old soldiers and
for selling the book considerably more than one
million dollars in cash
Mr.. Clemens, who was heartily received,
spoke as follows:
MARK TwAIN's ADDRESS.
will detain gu with only just few words-just
ter man-if he has been created. Lately a great
Ing ing n fauIt with V General Grants Engsh. That
would be fair enough, may be. if the examples of
imperfect English averaged more instances to the
Arnold's criticism upon the book-but they don't.
daughter and and, appauseo It would be fair enough,
eral Grants book than they are in the works
IN genera h ma
of grammar and construction are not more fire.
majority of the professional authors Of our time
and of all previous times-authors as exclusively
was General Grant to the trade of war.
Applause) This is not random statement;
at home book called Modern English Literature,
its Blemishes and Defects" by Henry a. Breen, F.
ampIes Of bad grammar and slovenly English from
the pens of Sydney Smith, Sheridan Hallam, Whate-
ley, CARLYLE both Dlsraeiis, Alison Junius, Blair,
BuIwer, CebOett, Or. Samuel johnson, Trench,
dictionary, christopher North kirk White, Mrs.
Sigourney, BENJAMIN Franklin, Walter Scott and
Mr. Arnold's paper on General Grants book wefnd
a couple of grammatical crimes apdmore than sew
eral examples of very crude aud slovenly English
enough of them to easily entite him to a loftyplace
IN that s5 OF hH % Just n ed
him: Meade suggested to Grant that he might
wish to have Immediately under him , Sherman,
begged him not to hesitate if he thought it for the
good Of the service Grant assured him that he
ors, after relating what had passed, he adds etc
man dzHy to Tsad It four times mess would make
him drunk. Great laughter) General Grants
sRs %ere as sU so M Brss1 would Sts
that inconsequential fact aside and hunt his
fs H
cause m man an is poet or historian he must be
eR ites must Be- joiner or physician ana COM
FOUNDER of medicines" Mr.. Breen7s point is we'll
to look out the kingdoms of the earth it might
be pleasant incident to find strawberries up there;
Gas TOT
don't think Mr.. Arnold was quite wise; for he
yet born who could safely assault another mans
English; he knew as well as he knows anything,
less. Can you believe that Mr.. Arnold was immod-
est enough to imagine himself exception to this
within the three or four centuries during which the
English language proper has been in existence? No,
that for moment he was moving into glass house.
and he had hardly got fairly in before General
ter)
People may hunt out what microscopic notes
they please, but after all the facs remains and
not be dislodged that General Grants book is q
great (and in its peculiar Department. unique and
unaPproachable literary masterpiece. In their line
there is no higher literature than those modest
Lace and moi ma md
books are weighed and measured By their
style and matter mot not by the trimmings
is nt that abeut The sun Which makes us forget FORGET
his spots; and when we think of General Grant our
" remember that this is the simple soldier. who,
all untaught of the silkeu se-makers, linked
schools and put into them something which will
stu bring to me n he ears as long as AsTea
tread of his marching hosts. (Tumultuous ap-
Surrender AND those others, II pro,
propose to fight It out on this line Il It taxes all
SUMMER {Applausel Mr.. Arnold would doubt
grammatical; and get nevertheless it did certainly
wake up this nation as hundred million tons of A
from another mouth couldn't have done. And final
hge I gep ras % that %
that in his soldier heart there was room for other
hem aed II M the
longed applause and cheers0
MEMORY GENERAL GRANT.
DR.: Riddle in the course Of his studied and fin,
ished address uttered the following gems: He said
that Grant was not only military leader; he
with an eagles clearness the true aim and object
of the war. He saw the true aim very clearly.
He realized that he fought against brave men,
brave
at Els
He trained his unframed soldiers by speedy and
actual work in the field, not by waiting.
Faith in his men gave him success and this was